Juba is Dead! Let the Dead Bury their Dead!
The Juba Peace Talks have collapsed! So what now for Acholi and northern Uganda? In November 2007, I wrote an article: "Why Museveni is undermining a negotiated settlement", published in Sudan Tribune http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article24886. That article was prompted by the mysterious death of Vincent Otti, LRM/A former second-in-command to Joseph Kony. In the face of the collapse of the Juba Peace Talks, and unconfirmed news of further upheavals of internal strifes and deaths of nine senior commanders in the LRM /A camps, including Okot Odhiambo, Vincent Otti's successor, the thesis of that article still holds: that Museveni is not interested in a negotiated settlement as compromise, accommodation and give-and-take in order to settle disputes. As far as he is concerned, the LRM/A is a defeated, and there is nothing to negotiate or settle. All that is needed is to draw up an orderly surrender terms- thrugh what is euphenmistically referred to as the Juba Peace N...